According to Harish Johari, each of us takes birth in that cakra where we have our greatest unfulfilled desire. : Tantra Yoga : Chakras and Rebirth
(The fact that we are born implies that we are at one of the six cakrAs, not at the seventh, but we can get there.)
When a person of the hRdaya (dharma) cakra engages in activities of another cakra :
Suppose your unfulfilled desire is to do something then you are reborn as a reformer, saint, devotee, healer or a spiritual artist, ie in the 4th cakra.
You have great love and compassion for humanity and you want to reform it.
You see injustice everywhere and you work to ‘fix the system’.
I have one friend one who fights for the disabled and underprivileged, she is forever concerned with ‘righting wrongs’. She is a social activist and even though she has a lot of physical pain, she works very hard to help people get rights and opportunities available to the physically able and fortunate.
I have another friend a gynaecologist. She is forever trying to teach the families of baby girls to treat them well and respect them and her efforts and committment are relentless.
Some other friends fight very hard to preserve hindu dharma and the correct the distorted images of hindus in a christian-western dominated media in India.
If your concern is purity and impurity, you are at vi’suddha cakra. If your concern is dharma and adharma (justice and injustice) you are at hRdaya cakra.
If you fall back on thought and knowledge to address issues at all layers you are at vis’uddha cakra.
If you fall back on love and activity to address issues at all layers you are at hRdaya (hrudaya) cakra.
In your job, in your family and in your basic activities you are fair, generous, sharing and loving.
You truly believe that your efforts make a difference and that people are teachable and helpable.
In your mind ‘the right way’ is the one that benefits the whole world. For you the whole world is your family.
http://www.indianpost.com/viewstamp.php/Issue%20Date/year/1974/month/7/KANDUKURI%20VEERESALINGAM : Kadukuri Veeresalingam was a born crusader against social evils. As a social reformer, he stired public consience for the improvement of Women’s status, uplift of Harijans and the removal of various social taboos. A man of action and firm determination he heralded a social revolution in Andhra. Born on April 16, 1848 Veeeresalingam lost his father at a tender age and was brought up by his uncle. Even as a pupil in the primary school, he opposed meaningless customs and religious beliefs. Later in life he was a school teacher. He fought valiantly against orthodoxy and waged a long-drawn battle for the rights of women to education, mariage of widows and the abolition of child marriage. He campaigned agaist the caste system and encouraged inter-caste mariages. He waged a battle against untouchability. He took up the case of the poor and the downtrodden and fought corrruption in administration. Veeresalngam was also a man of great erudition. He wrote playlets and essays in single Telugu, dealing with social evils. He started Telugu journals, and through their pages advocated various causes for social reform. He breathed his last on May 27, 1919.
When people in the dharma cakra act to serve others they are endearing.
When they talk about injustice – they get on the nerves of the people in higher cakrAs., and also of the people in the lower cakrAs.
Their major complaint about other people is that they are uncaring and selfish and not doing enough for general good.
People in this cakra are often loved by others because of their generosity.
A vis’uddha person who is disturbed exhibits the behavious of a dharma cakra person
satyA
Links to other posts on cakrAs : tantra yoga
This is very interesting and will be nice if you can elaborate and expand on this. One sentence in this post is complex and will be nice if you can explain pls? “When they talk about injustice – they get on the nerves of the people in higher cakrAs., and also of the people in the lower cakrAs.” Why would the higher chakra people find that annoying? Higher chakra would mean it is already a superset of the lower chakras, no?
higher chakra people can get there only by going beyond dharma and adharma. So talk of injustice is irritating, because they have gone past it.
Take the reservation issue. some think it is right and some think it is wrong. 4th chakra ppl will work tirelessly for whichever they see as dharma.
A fifth chakra person will see a lot more of the reality and will not take sides. You can annoy a visuddha chakra person by continuously saying that one side is unjust.
Thanks very much, Now I get it clearly. Kindly direct me to where I can read about all the chakras from this standpoint. Thanks again and again!
from this standpoint? i dont know. harish joharis book is very detailed. please read his book on chakras. as far as the connection between the two concepts as far as i know, i am the first to do it. please read ashtavakra gita. then u will know the limitations of dharma. i have written a lot about it already on this site. if u are looking for an authority please discuss with your guru. if you are looking for my insights u are welcome to follow this blog. tho you may think i am shifting suddenly from text to text, i am not. there is a very clear pattern evident to someone who follows all the posts.
i guess im disturbed that you think all my ideas are recanted from some source. they are original. if that makes you feel unsafe please pick a swamiji and read their sites.
satya
Thank you for explaining. And no, I did not have any thoughts of any kind apart from sheer fascination over your explanation of the chakras. I am new to all this, but enjoy reading about human behaviour. So your take was enriching. If I am following your blog it is only because I enjoy being here! Thanks very much for all this.
and i second it .
thanks a ton satya ji for these insights although to be fair, some of your post go beyond me.